Restrictions on prescription opioids were immediately followed by increases in heroin overdoses. Crackdowns on heroin were immediately followed by increases in fentanyl overdoses. Increased penalties for fentanyl analogues were immediately followed by the emergence of novel opioids and adulterants, as well as increases in fentanyl overdoses. States that criminalized the tranquilizer xylazine, a common opioid adulterant, saw medetomidine, an even more dangerous tranquilizer, emerge with force. Drug scheduling and criminalization has never made the street drug supply safer. And yet lawmakers keep relying on it. https://www.whatsitlike.me/failed-strategy-drug-supply-safer/   submitted by   /u/HHGjourno [link]   [comments]